Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: The Definitive Guide to Understanding Your Brain, Depression, Anxiety and How to Overcome It (Cognitive Behavioral Thera - Paperback

by Ryan James (Author)

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the most studied, most validated approach to mental health on the planet.

It's also one of the most misunderstood. Most people think it's just "positive thinking." It isn't.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - The Definitive Guide to Understanding Your Brain, Depression, Anxiety and How to Overcome It (Cog explains what CBT actually does. Single-volume guide written to be read straight through. Concrete, applicable, and built for the reader who wants results faster than theory.

Inside:

- The cognitive triangle - thoughts, feelings, behaviors. The basic loop everyone runs.
- Cognitive distortions named, catalogued, dismantled. Catastrophizing. Mind-reading. All-or-nothing thinking.
- The thought record. The single most useful piece of paper in mental health.
- Behavioral activation for depression. Why action precedes motivation, not the other way around.
- Exposure techniques for anxiety. Done right, gentle, gradual.
- How to be your own therapist between sessions. Or instead of, when therapy isn't accessible.

Read it slowly. Practice one technique a week. Six months in, the inside of your head feels less like a hostile place.